Interview with Screenwriter Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough (HELOISE + ABELARD)

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What is your screenplay about?

A young French girl does the unthinkable – she falls in love with her professor, who is 20 years her senior. Their forbidden love became the greatest sex scandal of 12th-century France and spanned two decades amid the searing backdrop of political and religious turmoil. The affair costs the lovers everything they had, but their love for each other prevails.

What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Historic romance, based on a true story.

(Note: Today, Heloise is buried next to Peter in Paris. Many Parisians view their love as the best example of absolute and eternal love. Young lovers visit their grave and leave love notes in hopes that they too will have eternal love.)

Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Even though HELOISE+ABELARD is set in 12th century France, their love story is relevant to today. Heloise and Peter’s timeless…

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Interview with Screenwriter Matthew Nicholson (SENIOR DITCH DAY)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

When Gwen Wiley hears handsome, local weatherman Hudson Blake announce a rare occurrence of the northern lights, she hatches an escape from her nursing home to spread her late husband’s ashes. Gwen goes to extraordinary lengths and through various hijinks to say goodbye to the love of her life on their anniversary. In the end, her senior (citizen) ditch day manages to bring Gwen even closer to her daughter who’s tired of her mother’s mischief.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

“Senior Ditch Day” started as a comedy. I mean, I certainly think Hudson marching through Harvey’s ashes is pretty funny, but I guess you could also classify that as horror. However, there are certainly heart-breaking moments like when Gwen spreads her husband’s ashes and looks up at the aurora borealis and says, “so, that’s what they mean by breathtaking” which is…

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Interview with Screenwriter Glenn Lissner (SHANEEKA & HOSS)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

Two people forming an unlikely and mutually beneficial friendship beyond race, gender, religion and age.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Dramedy

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

There are plenty of negative things people are currently coping with. Having a positive and progressive message may be a nice distraction. Showing two superficially different people connect, as opposed to what feels like an endless divide in this country, is exactly the kind of story we need.

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Positive connection.

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

Young Frankenstein

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

Couple months

7. How many stories have you written?

12

8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times…

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Interview with Screenwriter Arthur Tiersky (WE ARE ALL DEAD)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

It’s based on a terrific novella by Bruno Fischer. It’s about an icy professional crook, a typical noir protagonist, who is recruited by his old friend for a heist that goes very wrong when the young getaway driver is killed. His widow comes to collect his share of the money, and both our hero and his old friend quickly fall for her. Meanwhile, the police are hot on their trail, and the other gang members start mysteriously dying one by one. So it’s part love triangle, part heist flick, and part murder mystery.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

It’s pure classic noir. Ideally, it gets made as a letter-perfect imitation of the classics from the ’40s and ’50s, in black and white, the whole deal.

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Noir is such a great lost…

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Interview with Screenwriter Stephonika W. Kaye (REGENESIS)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

Regenesis follows two main characters: Miranda and Atlas, who are set against this futuristic backdrop of a withering galaxy. Miranda is on a mission of revenge to kill the man responsible for all the trauma she’s endured over the last few years. Atlas presents as just some wanderer in the wastes, but really he’s carrying cargo that could save the lives of billions. Ultimately, it becomes a decision for Miranda on whether or not to help him and find some redemption in that.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Definitely a sci-fi drama. As a short it’s more low-fi as well. It has some action/adventure elements as well but is much more a character driven conversation piece.

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Since writing the short, I’ve also been playing with ideas in developing it either into…

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Interview with Screenwriter Julian David Hoxter (TRAMPS LIKE US)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

Tramps Like Us follows the eccentric and diverse crew of the Tramp Steamer Stella Maris as they encounter supernatural and monstrous adventures in the “East Indies” of the 1930s. As much about the price of colonialism and the evil of men as it is about the monstrous other, Tramps Like Us is also a very contemporary story in the costume of genre and period.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Character driven horror and adventure.

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Well, it’s a pilot script, but it could certainly be expanded into a great retro monster movie with a wonderful twist.

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

I’m cheating but think of it like Firefly meets The Long Voyage Home in The Most Dangerous Game on The Island of Dr Moreau. Fine, in…

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See the Full Lineup of Films:

THE 13TH NOTE, 22min., USA

Directed by Karim Khorsheed
Traditional Classical compared to Speed shred metal, music that moves the soul differently in everyone.

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FFAALL (THE TRAGEDY OF SATAN), 10min., UK

Directed by Joe Morgan
A fallen angel finds himself in a world of suffocating opulence and illusion where nothing is as it seems.

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BEING A WOMAN…

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